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13/02/2014

Valentine's Gift - Mixed Media Place

Good evening! It was my day over at Mixed Media Place yesterday! As it's soon Valentine's Day so I thought to make a little gift box and card as my monthly project. I started with creating a pink paper and then added the embellishments on top. I made the two similar in appearance so they could be given as a set but of course they work on their own, too.

I customized the embellishments a little, adding my own touch to them. For the white roses I used a touch of Gelatos and then spread the color with water. The silver ones I treated with pink alcohol inks to match the candy-like palette. The chipboard clock arms I painted with white gesso and lastly added a hint of white on top of the flowers with it, too.

One of my favorite ways to include Primary Element pigments to crafts is to mix them with decoupage glue and create a glaze that way. For these crafts I used two shades of pink, a lighter one which I spread first and then a hot pink one that I added here and there.

As I said in the beginning, I created a subtle pink patterned paper for the both crafts. If you want to do similar, just follow the steps underneath!

4. Time to add the Valentine touch - some penciled hearts! Draw a heart pattern to the piece and then highlight a few with a Gelato crayon.4. Aika lisätä ystävänpäiväteemaan sopiva yksityiskohta - piirreltyjä sydämiä! Piirrä sydämet lyijykynällä ja väritä niistä muutamaa Gelatos-liidulla.

5. Last step is to add some "light" to the background. Take a little gesso and water it down to consistence of milk. Then splash the paint to the piece and dry with a heat gun. Cut the ready piece to fit your project whether it is a layer to the background or die cut to be used as an embellishment.

Oh more pretty cards and awesome backgound. That was one of the things that I have enjoyed so much about the Pop and Colours... I love the backgrounds but I am just too rigid and in all of the tuts the one thing I noticed was just put stuff down and add layers, and more layers, and even more layers. I have been playing but I am just not FREE enough yet :D